Blueprint of the Final FRCA examination mapped against the intermediate level units of training

Published: 09/09/2019

Essential Units

Unit of Training	MCQ	CRQ	SOE 1	SOE 2
Anaesthesia for neurosurgery, neuroradiology and neuro critical care	√	√	√	√
Cardiothoracic anaesthesia and cardiothoracic critical care	√	√	√	√
General duties
Airway management	√	√	√	√
Critical incidents	√	√	√	√
Day surgery	√	√	√	√
General, urological and gynaecological surgery	√	√	√	√
Head, neck, maxillo-facial and dental surgery	√	√	√	√
Management of respiratory and cardiac arrest	√	√	√	√
Non-theatre	√	√	√	√
Orthopaedic surgery	√	√	√	√
Perioperative medicine	√	√	√	√
Regional	√	√	√	√
Sedation	√	√	√	√
Transfer medicine		√	√	√
Trauma and stabilisation	√	√	√	√
Intensive care medicine	√	√	√	√
Obstetrics	√	√	√	√
Paediatric	√	√	√	√
Pain medicine	√	√	√	√

Optional Units

Unit of Training	MCQ	CRQ	SOE 1	SOE 2
Ophthalmic	√	√	√	√
Plastics/Burns	√	√	√	√
Vascular	√	√	√	√

Advanced sciences to underpin anaesthetic practice

Unit of Training	MCQ	CRQ	SOE 1	SOE 2
Anatomy	√	√	√	√
Applied clinical pharmacology	√	√	√	√
Applied physiology and biochemistry	√	√	√	√
Nutrition	√	√		√
Physics and clinical measurement	√	√		√
Statistical basis for trial management	√	√		√